Too good to check. Dogs, dead, get voter reg forms

posted at 12:30 pm on July 15, 2012 by Jazz Shaw

Call it a slow news weekend or just call it business as usual in politics. If this story is a spoof, it’s a fairly good one, since CBS and others picked up on it immediately.

A “non-profit group” seems to have mailed out a massive number of voter registration forms targeting likely Democratic leaning recipients. No problem so far. Nothing wrong with getting registration forms out to the public. They also took the extra step of filling in some of the information in advance. Now we’re getting a little dodgy, but if they don’t pre-fill the party registration or demographic details, it might still be OK. So… what could possibly go wrong?

The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address.

Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.

A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5 million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, African-Americans, Latinos and young adults.

But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, noncitizens and people already registered to vote.

Also on the list of recipients:

A dead dog named Mozart, belonging to a Virginia man

A cat named “scampers” who also lives in Virginia

Dead people

People who had moved to other states

People already registered to vote elsewhere

This story will doubtless cause the fur to fly (er… sorry) in the usual circles, but perhaps it will also cause people to think about voter registration and ID differently. This group is obviously using commercially available mailing lists from sources which have nothing to do with government registration and can contain some oddball entries, but they are transferring that data into the voting system.

I wonder if they sent any to Florida, where even now we learn that the recent check of registered voters is turning up people who are registered but admitted, upon being asked, that they are not eligible. And more importantly… how many of them were dogs?

UPDATE: (Jazz) I have been informed that the dog pictured on the front page for this article actually belongs to hilarious political satirist Frank Fleming of New York Post and PJ Media fame, among other places. He’s on Twitter (@IMAO_). The picture was taken by his wife Sarah.

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“Let me just say this,” Obama told a crowd of more than 3,000 packed into a four-block stretch of downtown Roanoke late Friday. “If I win Virginia, I’m going to get four more years. That I can say with some confidence.”

Maybe we should let cats vote. Independent, pro-hunting, not known for accepting a lot of bullcrap. Certainly I’d trust a bunch of cats at the polls than the young voters that proudly voted themselves into slavery in 2008.

Well in Texas the DOJ presented the court with a list of 1.5M people they claim have no photo ID. (hmmm, then where did the list come from?) Among the many people on the list that obviously had IDs were George H. Bush.

Well in Texas the DOJ presented the court with a list of 1.5M people they claim have no photo ID. (hmmm, then where did the list come from?) Among the many people on the list that obviously had IDs were George H. Bush.

I wonder if they sent any to Florida, where even now we learn that the recent check of registered voters is turning up people who are registered but admitted, upon being asked, that they are not eligible. And more importantly… how many of them were dogs?

The thing about Florida polling places is that the workers are all sweet, elderly, trusting Church ladies and their husbands. My MIL does it every year. In 2008 there was genuine fear where she was working. She saw all sorts of shenanigans but all the workers were afraid of doing anything.

Testimony has concluded in the trial of Texas ‘Voter I.D.’ law, after attorneys for the state demolished the main arguments raised against the law by the Obama Administration, and got the key witness for the Justice Department to admit he got his information from Wikipedia, 1200 WOAI news reports.

“So what? The total amount of proven voter fraud in the US is infinitesimal, and any attempt to regulate voting is a form of Jim Crow. Requiring voters to show ID only proves that Mitt Romney hates dogs. Did we mention that he once strapped Seamus to the roof of his car?”

Testimony has concluded in the trial of Texas ‘Voter I.D.’ law, after attorneys for the state demolished the main arguments raised against the law by the Obama Administration, and got the key witness for the Justice Department to admit he got his information from Wikipedia, 1200 WOAI news reports.

This kind of stuff is good for a laugh and everything but we should be concerned. Forget about the dogs,that “massive” number of voter registration forms will translate into massive fraud. And you know how hard our spineless RINO leaders will fight it.

Are there any polls out yet on how many of the dead and/or dogs are likely voters? How many are among the undecided? I suppose that being dead instantly qualifies you to register as a Democrat but I am certain that my black lab isn’t; he is so hyper he makes coffee nervous and he doesn’t sit around waiting for anything.

my cats-including the dead ones-are noted libertarians who hate the vet and want to be left alone. (so you know they’re anti-obamacare.) they also don’t like it when stupid humons or other cats touch their stuff- no redistribution of kitteh’s scratching posts, cat nip mice, and carpeted stripper poles by commies! the Siberian-American in particular understands life under a totalitarian socialist regime…

i wish i had registered them all last time around. the cat vote alone would have swung the election juan mcpain’s way just to avoid the marxist who will force them to the vet whether they need it or not and will steal their kitty condos, giving them to unfixed, irresponsible shelter queens with litters of nip babies by numerous fathers.